ASPIRING Aussie actor Isabel Lucas is basking in the
limelight after
landing a role in Daybreakers, starring Hollywood A-lister
Ethan
Hawke.
The Melbourne-based actor will make her film debut as the
daughter
of movie veteran Sam Neill in the vampire thriller.
It was just five years ago Lucas was plucked from obscurity
for a
role in Home and Away.
The rising star admits she thought her chance of starring in
Daybreakers was slim.
"My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever,"
Lucas, 22,
said yesterday.
"It was quite an extreme scene of going from crying to
brutally
stabbing her father.
"It was a huge challenge and I just thought 'Well thanks for
having
me in, but I know that I will never come back for this one'."
Also starring fellow Aussie stars Claudia Karvan and Michael
Dorman,
Daybreakers centres on Hawke's character Ed, a researcher in
2017.
In a bizarre twist, an unknown plague transforms the world's
population into vampires.
Lucas plays the last surviving member of the human race.
Lucas will begin filming her scenes next week.
"It's healthy to be nervous and I am sure I will be on the
first day
of shooting," she said.
With the film set for worldwide release next year, the actor
hopes
it leads to further film work, especially overseas.
"I hope so, of course I would love to work overseas on a
film," she
said
Erin McWhirter
August 04, 2007
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